National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition Responds to...
Read the Coalition’s July 9, 2018 statement, which outlines how the Department of Justice’s decision to rescind key guidance documents threatens to harm youth of color and other vulnerable youth....
View ArticleNew York Times Quotes CCLP Deputy Director in Coverage of Treatment of...
As part of a series covering the experience of migrant youth in detention facilities throughout the country, the New York Times interviewed CCLP’s Jason Szanyi. An August 4 article cited the use of...
View ArticleStop Family Detention
Today, CCLP submitted comments to the Department of Homeland Security rejecting the Trump Administration’s proposal to roll back long-standing protections for immigrant children. The proposed rule...
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Groundbreaking New Publication Promotes Health and Safety of Transgender...
Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the Center for Children’s Law and Policy (CCLP) released a new publication, Model Policy: Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex Youth...
View ArticleNational Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition Responds to...
Today, the National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition (NJJDPC), of which CCLP is a Steering Committee Member, responded to yesterday’s report from the Federal School Safety...
View ArticleCongress Passes Landmark Federal Youth Justice Legislation
On December 13, members Congress passed H.R. 6964, a bill to reauthorize and strengthen the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA). Thank you to all of CCLP’s partners who made passage...
View ArticleNew JJDPA Requirements for Racial and Ethnic Disparities
CCLP and the Burns Institute have published a fact sheet on changes to requirements in federal law related to states’ requirements to tackle overrepresentation of youth of color. Read the fact sheet,...
View ArticleCCLP Identifies Enhanced Opportunities for Diversion in Baltimore
On April 1, the Center for Children’s Law and Policy released a comprehensive assessment of Baltimore’s efforts to divert young people away from contact with the justice system. As part of a Consent...
View ArticleCOVID-19
COVID-19 Resources There are more than 43,000 youth in juvenile justice facilities right now. As the country grapples with the global COVID-19 pandemic, youth in the justice system should not be left...
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The Message to Our Children
At the Center for Children’s Law and Policy, we feel revulsion and disgust at the violence on January 6 and the lawless efforts to deny the will of the voters. Every day more videos show the horrific...
View ArticleLouisiana Office of Juvenile Justice now sending some kids in state custody...
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View ArticleCCLP’s Statement on Supreme Court Decision regarding Affirmative Action
The Center for Children’s Law and Policy condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that race-conscious admissions programs at institutions of higher education violate the Constitution’s guarantee of...
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